Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-03-18 Thread Christian Loosli
Am Montag, 18. März 2019, 11:08:39 CET schrieb Boudewijn Rempt: > On maandag 18 maart 2019 11:06:26 CET Eike Hein wrote: > > On 3/18/19 6:38 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > > I'm sure people are working hard on fixing things up, but right now > > > webchat.kde.org just does not work. If I look in at

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-03-18 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On maandag 18 maart 2019 11:06:26 CET Eike Hein wrote: > > On 3/18/19 6:38 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > I'm sure people are working hard on fixing things up, but right now > > webchat.kde.org just does not work. If I look in at the Krita channel on > > webchat.kde.org, the last message is from

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-03-18 Thread Eike Hein
On 3/18/19 6:38 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: I'm sure people are working hard on fixing things up, but right now webchat.kde.org just does not work. If I look in at the Krita channel on webchat.kde.org, the last message is from 23:01 yesterday. The Matrix folks told us they're working with f

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-03-18 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On maandag 18 maart 2019 07:16:11 CET Luca Beltrame wrote: > Il giorno Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:25:01 +0100 > Albert Astals Cid ha scritto: > > > Matrix is right now more than 2 hours behind for #kde-devel making it > > totally useless. > > I don't see this big of a delay in large traffic channels li

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-03-17 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:25:01 +0100 Albert Astals Cid ha scritto: > Matrix is right now more than 2 hours behind for #kde-devel making it > totally useless. I don't see this big of a delay in large traffic channels like #plasma. The worst I've seen is a handful of seconds in both directio

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-03-17 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dimecres, 20 de febrer de 2019, a les 13:36:37 CET, Paul Brown va escriure: > Hi all, > > Some aspects of Matrix which make it particularly suitable for KDE are: Some aspects of IRC which make it particularly suitable are: * It actually works Matrix is right now

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Christian Loosli
Hello all Terribly sorry to interrupt here, but would it maybe make sense to move this topic into its own, separate thread? It seems to not be much about the Matrix Infrastructure or related articles. This would make it easier to search, find and filter. Thanks for considering and kind regar

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On donderdag 28 februari 2019 21:48:15 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Thursday, 28 February 2019 16:38:30 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > I get some unitemised t-shirts from old Akademys which is > > appreciated. > > .. and leftover QtWS shirts, and some other items that I had made. I forget >

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday, 28 February 2019 16:38:30 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I get some unitemised t-shirts from old Akademys which is > appreciated. .. and leftover QtWS shirts, and some other items that I had made. I forget where I reported that -- I can't spot it on this list, so maybe I sent that in

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dijous, 28 de febrer de 2019, a les 16:38:30 CET, Jonathan Riddell va escriure: > > I get some unitemised t-shirts from old Akademys which is > appreciated. Do I understand it correctly that KDE e.V. gave you t-shirts, you sold them and then kept the money? That sounds quite bad to be hones

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dimecres, 20 de febrer de 2019, a les 13:36:37 CET, Paul Brown va escriure: > Hi all, > > You can try KDE's Matrix service right now by checking out https:// > webchat.kde.org What are we going to do with the constant loss of messages? I posted a message in webc

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 08:08:14AM -0700, Andy B wrote: > On his insistence, we worked to have a > more clear policy of access to social media. The board didn't work to have a more clear policy of access to social media. The promo team did this. What I'm frustrated at is understanding why the bo

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Thanks for the discussion, it's what I've been missing :) I've asked numberous e.V. board members and staff over the years how e.V. can help people running conference stalls such as the one at FOSDEM with stuff like logistics, banking, stocktaking, venue hire, accounts review and stock storage,

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Andy B
Andy Betts KDE Board On Feb 28, 2019, 5:13 AM -0700, Jonathan Riddell , wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:06:22PM -0800, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > Hey Jon, I hope that the CWG response was not dismissive, and you were > > certainly not ignored. We always listen and try to help when possible.

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Eike Hein
Hi, of course "being insulted" is very much in the eye of the beholder. I'm very tired of this accusation being thrown around, so let's do real talk and summarize the situation according to my best knowledge of events: Jonathan Riddell sold KDE mechandising (t-shirts) at FOSDEM to attendees. He

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:06:00AM -0800, Andy B wrote: > However, I recommend to always assume best intentions in everything. > Once we deride, criticize and slander, we stop the e.V. Board’s > ability to help. We walk into the battle wounded. Assuming best > intentions will also help you remove t

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:06:22PM -0800, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hey Jon, I hope that the CWG response was not dismissive, and you were > certainly not ignored. We always listen and try to help when possible. If you > didn't feel at the very least listened to, we failed there.  > > You are one

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:06:00AM -0800, Andy B wrote: > With that said, is there anything that we can help with in this > particular instance? Do we feel that we are satisfied with the answers > provided? Why did the e.v. president block shutting down the social-media mailing list? The list is

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, since the CWG was referenced, I'll just reply here where we were mentioned. I'm a Dot editor and IRC/Matrix user too. On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 5:35 AM Jonathan Riddell wrote: > The workboard item is https://phabricator.kde.org/T10477 , it wasn't > tagged KDE promo, it wasn't sent to th

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-27 Thread Andy B
On February 27, 2019 at 4:36:52 AM, Jonathan Riddell (j...@jriddell.org(mailto:j...@jriddell.org)) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:22:03AM -0700, Nate Graham wrote: > > It's no great secret that Paul and Jonathan don't have a great working > > relationship, but this problem needs to be addres

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-27 Thread Paul Brown
On miércoles, 27 de febrero de 2019 12:36:35 (CET) Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:22:03AM -0700, Nate Graham wrote: > > It's no great secret that Paul and Jonathan don't have a great working > > relationship, but this problem needs to be addressed openly. > Au contrate, we hav

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-27 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:22:03AM -0700, Nate Graham wrote: > It's no great secret that Paul and Jonathan don't have a great working > relationship, but this problem needs to be addressed openly. Au contrate, we have spent many a fine night drinking beer and whisky together from Edinburgh to Sar

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-27 Thread Kenny Duffus
On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:54:38 GMT Paul Brown wrote: > > and I wasn't pinged > > As for this... well, as we are being frank here: You are not the most > discrete of people and not anybody's first choice for keeping things > quiet. > > Don't get me wrong, being forthcoming is a much appreci

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Andy B
On February 26, 2019 at 11:22:27 AM, Nate Graham (n...@kde.org(mailto:n...@kde.org)) wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:37:56 -0700 Christian Loosli wrote > > That all in mind is why I think the approach was maybe not the best one and > > should be reconsidered for future events and article

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Nate Graham
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:37:56 -0700 Christian Loosli wrote > That all in mind is why I think the approach was maybe not the best one and > should be reconsidered for future events and articles. > > Thanks and kind regards, > > Christian I'm in agreement with Christia

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Christian Loosli
Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2019, 17:54:38 CET schrieb Paul Brown: Hello Paul, > > The workboard item is https://phabricator.kde.org/T10477, it wasn't > > tagged KDE promo, it wasn't sent to the dot-editors list > > This is true. However, there were good reasons for keeping things under > wraps:

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Laszlo Papp
Hi Paul, Thank you for your feedback. I personally still have concerns with the dot article. I am not a native English speaker, so I am happy to stand corrected if I am wrong. But to me, it still reads with some bias towards Matrix. I would like the article to read as Matrix is yet another choic

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Paul Brown
Hello Jonathan, > The workboard item is https://phabricator.kde.org/T10477, it wasn't > tagged KDE promo, it wasn't sent to the dot-editors list This is true. However, there were good reasons for keeping things under wraps: Firstly nobody wanted it to pop up on some place like Reddit, have a b

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Scott Harvey
Okay, I can see the point made by Laszlo and Helio. I retract my request after further consideration. I'm a part of the community, as is this discussion, and so I suppose it should stay on the community mailing list. Apologies for intervening... please continue. -Scott On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Laszlo Papp
Hi Scott, I can see your point, so not trying to challenge it. I just feel that open means open, not open like in facebook context. In a completely open environment, it is not just the success and easiness that becomes available, but some respectful and fair arguments, difficulties, etc, that nee

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Helio Chissini de Castro
Yes, i agreed to move elsewhere.. ...as long the intention is just hide from the community and bury in different place This discussion should be public and visible to KDE community, as this is the KDE spirit ever. If something was done wrong, everyone should be able to understand and help to fix

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Scott Harvey
Jonathan, et al - Can I respectfully ask that this debate/dispute be moved elsewhere? I've been on hiatus from my role as a minor KDE contibutor for a few months. It's not encouraging to resume paying attention only to find another argument in progress. I suppose it could be argued that this

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Jonathan Riddell
The workboard item is https://phabricator.kde.org/T10477 , it wasn't tagged KDE promo, it wasn't sent to the dot-editors list and I wasn't pinged (I'm the only active volunteer Dot editor). I've tried to discuss problems in promo with the e.V. board and CWG in the past when long term contributors

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-26 Thread Christian Loosli
Hi Jonathan, thanks for the wrap-up. I am less interested in pointing blame, and more interested in - how this could have happened - what our learnings are so this doesn't happen again in the future? It still is unclear to me how non-true accusations without further explanation made it into

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-25 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Chatting about this Dot story on the dot-editors list it seems the story was written by the Matrix and Onboarding teams, reviewed by a few people, but none who happened to pick up the concerns noted when it was published. The story was amended when those concerns were raised. Apologies for the con

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-23 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 5:10 AM Eike Hein wrote: > > > > On 2/21/19 8:46 PM, Filipe Saraiva wrote: > > 2. What are the reasons to use a server owned by a company, not by us? I > > don't want to start a flamewar, just know the reasons and motivations. > > Hosting a Matrix server currently requires

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-23 Thread Eike Hein
On 2/21/19 8:46 PM, Filipe Saraiva wrote: 2. What are the reasons to use a server owned by a company, not by us? I don't want to start a flamewar, just know the reasons and motivations. Hosting a Matrix server currently requires a quite beefy box, and is also somewhat maintenance-intensive.

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-22 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:54 AM Filipe Saraiva wrote: > > Em 20/02/2019 09:36, Paul Brown escreveu: > > So please head over to https://webchat.kde.org (or matrix.kde.org via any > > other Matrix client!), grab an account and join #kde:kde.org. For more > > information, check out our Matrix wiki p

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-22 Thread Filipe Saraiva
Em 20/02/2019 09:36, Paul Brown escreveu: > So please head over to https://webchat.kde.org (or matrix.kde.org via any > other Matrix client!), grab an account and join #kde:kde.org. For more > information, check out our Matrix wiki page which includes details on how to > configure desktop clien

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Joseph Wenninger
Hi! I think the public dot.kde.org article was a little bit premature, registration does not work because of timeouts and/or CORS errors, ... Best regards Joseph Wenninger Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 20.02.2019 um 15:37 schrieb Laszlo Papp : > > > >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 2:30 PM Hans T

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Agustin Benito (toscalix)
Hi Lazlo, On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:37 PM Laszlo Papp wrote: > 1. Why does KDE need to control these channels? > > 2. This is still not a selling point for Matrix against IRC to be honest. > Because one can set up an IRC server just as well as a Matrix server. So, I > would not mention this in

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Hans Tovetjärn
On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 15:37:32 CET Laszlo Papp wrote: > > "IRC has been a good solution for a long time, but our channels are > > currently > > on servers KDE cannot control. It also lacks features users have come to > > expect from more modern IM services." > > 1. Why does KDE need to co

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 2:30 PM Hans Tovetjärn wrote: > On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 15:07:09 CET Agustin Benito (toscalix) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:52 PM Hans Tovetjärn > wrote: > > > On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 13:36:37 CET Paul Brown wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > >

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Hans Tovetjärn
On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 15:07:09 CET Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:52 PM Hans Tovetjärn wrote: > > On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 13:36:37 CET Paul Brown wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > KDE has been looking for a better way of chatting and live-sha

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Agustin Benito (toscalix)
Hi, On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:52 PM Hans Tovetjärn wrote: > > On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 13:36:37 CET Paul Brown wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > KDE has been looking for a better way of chatting and live-sharing of > > information for several years now. IRC has been a good solution for a long > >

Re: Don't shoot the messenger (was Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure)

2019-02-20 Thread Hans Tovetjärn
On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 14:06:26 CET Paul Brown wrote: > Dear all, > > What the subject says. Please address your concerns to the people who made > the decision and passed down the bullet points of the text. > > I will not be responding to any messages in this thread, since it is not my >

Re: Don't shoot the messenger (was Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure)

2019-02-20 Thread Christian Loosli
Hello Paul, in this case please do let me know who passed that text through, because it is simply wrong and misleading, and I'm not terribly happy with that being on the dot. It doesn't look terribly good when we spread wrong information about a product we still actively use. And I also wond

Don't shoot the messenger (was Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure)

2019-02-20 Thread Paul Brown
Dear all, What the subject says. Please address your concerns to the people who made the decision and passed down the bullet points of the text. I will not be responding to any messages in this thread, since it is not my place. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Ma

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Hans Tovetjärn
On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 13:36:37 CET Paul Brown wrote: > Hi all, > > KDE has been looking for a better way of chatting and live-sharing of > information for several years now. IRC has been a good solution for a long > time, but has centralized servers KDE cannot control, it is also insecure

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Laszlo Papp
I have the same concerns as Christian. 1. We used to run internal Nokia IRC servers professionally for a long time, so does Mozilla, etc. 2. I also do not understand the insecure claims. 3. As a matter of personal preference, I like some non-modern features better than modern. I am not against

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Christian Loosli
Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2019, 13:36:37 CET schrieb Paul Brown: > Hi all, Hi Paul, > KDE has been looking for a better way of chatting and live-sharing of > information for several years now. IRC has been a good solution for a long > time, but has centralized servers KDE cannot control, it is al

KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-20 Thread Paul Brown
Hi all, KDE has been looking for a better way of chatting and live-sharing of information for several years now. IRC has been a good solution for a long time, but has centralized servers KDE cannot control, it is also insecure and lacks features users have come t